WD-42

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by WD-42 11mo ago
Arch being unstable is a myth. I’ve had far more issues with major upgrades between versions of Debian, fedora and Ubuntu than I ever had on arch. I think my install is almost 6 years old now.
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by WD-42 11mo ago
Nice work. I’ve been writing an app using the same stack. The gtk-rs bindings are actually pretty productive once you get used to it! And it’s so fast.
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by WD-42 11mo ago
Routers are all running ddwrt which we only have access to because of a GPL lawsuit against Linksys. The GPL works.
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by WD-42 11mo ago
It’s a play on “permissive” license.
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by WD-42 11mo ago
I’m pretty sure spinning HDDs can have rather complex controllers that actually try to optimize access at the block level by minimizing the amount the read head needs to travel. So yea there are some buffers in there.
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by WD-42 11mo ago
Where are these places where everything is written by a LLM? I guess just don’t go there. Most of the comments on HN still seem human.
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by WD-42 11mo ago
Do you consider forking VSCode making a code editor? I wouldn't. Not that this is one of those, but most "new" editors seem to be.
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by WD-42 11mo ago
Most web apps are waiting on the DB anyway. Rarely have I seen the speed of the actual framework make any meaningful difference.
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by WD-42 11mo ago
It’s not the same at all. In Rust you cannot just throw an attribute on to a struct in the middle of a function because it makes some call further down the chain easier, no matter how much unsafe you use. I’m not a python hater, you can’t g
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by WD-42 11mo ago
Oh I’m familiar with the ecosystem. Yes the dynamic nature does make it easy to prototype things flexibly. The problem is when your coworker, or you, decide to flexibly and dynamically get the job on a Friday before a long weekend and then
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by WD-42 11mo ago
LLMs LOVE to write Rust like this. They add smart pointers, options and lifetimes everywhere when none of those things are necessary. I don’t know what it is, but they love over-engineering it.
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by WD-42 11mo ago
Lifetimes really only come into play if you are doing something really obscure. Often times when I’m about to add lifetimes to my code I re-think it and realize there is a better way to architect it that doesn’t involve them at all. They ar
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by WD-42 11mo ago
I’ve been writing python professionally for over 10 years. In the last year I’ve been writing more and most Rust. At first I thought the same as you. It’s a fugly language, there’s no denying it. But once I started to learn what all the wei
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by WD-42 11mo ago
cargo vendor
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by WD-42 11mo ago
Rand, uuid, and no built in logging implementation are three examples that require crates but probably shouldn’t.
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by WD-42 11mo ago
I feel this even in the edutainment system of my car. It’s one year old. Actual 1-2 second delays per key just to type in an address in the map. wtf is wrong with the industry now.
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by WD-42 11mo ago
I'm not sure what you mean - pretty much every modern GNOME application has keyboard shortcuts. In fact they use a consistent keyboard shortcut to bring up the screen that shows all the keyboard shortcuts: ctrl+?
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by WD-42 11mo ago
Username checks out. Not everyone wants to use Debian stable, with 3 year old packages. And most certainly not everyone wants to use KDE. Choice is what makes the Linux ecosystem great even if it leads to fragmentation. Most distros are cre
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by WD-42 11mo ago
You know what is proven effective? Not needing to reach for a mouse to interact with taskbar, start button and menus. GNOME is extremely effective as long as you aren't a clicker. If you want to stick to a 30 year old desktop metaphor
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by WD-42 11mo ago
So then why is it so common on MacOS?
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by WD-42 11mo ago
Do you really think a desktop needs to be stuck on the 30 year old start menu, task bar, desktop icons paradigm forever? It's fine if you want to stick to that, but the rest of us have found that using a mouse for everything isn't
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by WD-42 11mo ago
I don’t understand desktop icons. Why spend the time finding the thing, moving your hand to the mouse and clicking when you can just hit super, type the first 2 or 3 characters, done.
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by WD-42 11mo ago
It’s the Klutter. Apps with unnecessary taskbars, buttons and menus all over the place. Inconsistent ui. Not exactly great on screen real estate. I think they are making progress but the difference between kde /qt and gnome/gtk is
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by WD-42 11mo ago
Most of the time I hear the “basic functionality” complaint about gnome it’s someone missing a start menu and taskbar. Which makes sense if you are a clicker stuck on the desktop paradigm introduced in the early 90s. Gnome is very keyboard
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by WD-42 11mo ago
Every cool feature you listed is windows gaining more Linux like features. Which begs the question…
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by WD-42 11mo ago
To be fair journalctl practically requires its own book
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by WD-42 11mo ago
That is amazing news! My biggest gripe with Fedora has always been that it is recommended to new users and then 80% of the time they have an Nvidia card and you end up with "Linux sucks if you use Nvidia" even though the official
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by WD-42 11mo ago
So easy it requires a 140 lines of howto: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/rpmfusion-se... It's easy for us. It's not clear how someone coming from windows would even know that they had to
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by WD-42 11mo ago
Bazzite provides a Steam-OS gaming-centric interface out of the box. How are you going to upstream that? You think Debian stable is going to agree all of a sudden provide it's users a gaming console UI?
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by WD-42 11mo ago
People want to game. Telling them to install Debian stable is not going to end well. There's a reason why these "weird" gaming distros are popular, and it's not because they are making people run back to Windows - quite

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